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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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Gallery: More Great Photos From the Belair Plaza Outlaw Car Show at The 2012 Daytona Turkey Run

(Photos by Doug Garrison) – Yesterday we dropped a load of about 100 photos on your from the Belair Plaza “outlaw” car show that breaks out at the Daytona Turkey Run event every...

Sea Of Cones: The Coolest Intro To Autocrossing Film We’ve Seen – Why You Need To Do This Stuff!

There’s not doubt about the fact that autocross competitions involving cars that were not traditionally part of the autocross world have been growing at an explosive level over the last couple...

Craigslist Find: A Legit 1970s Built 1969 Plymouth Road Runner Street Freak!

While today we openly roast stuff like “donks” there was a time when jacking your stuff up was cool and that time was the 1970s and the whole street freak movement. This 1969 Road Runner...

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WTF Find: A VW Based “Camaro” Kit Car — Absolutely Horrendous In Every Way

Of all the weird, occasionally heinous, bizarre junk we have highlighted here at BangShift over the years, this thing takes the cake. Chad’s head is going to explode when he sees this. We have...

Atco Raceway Sold – Historic New Jersey Strip Purchased By Len Capone Jr. – Alky Funny Car Racer

Atco Raceway, located in Atco, New Jersey has been sold to its current ownership partners to Len Capone Jr, a New Jersey native with a long history with drag racing and the historic drag plant...

Video: Rental Car Burnout Extravaganza Thanks To The Guys At Aeromotive

I seriously have to apologize for not having this video up sooner since I was actually at the track when this burnout went down. I knew that a couple of Aermotive Fuel System guys watched it happen...

Video Bonanza: A History of Camaro TV Commercials 1967-1998 — We’ve Got A PILE Of ‘Em!

We’re not sure why we killed an hour looking for old TV commercials, but maybe you can spend half that looking at this compilation of Camaro ads over the years. There are 19 videos here because...

Caption this Photo: How not to Move a Car on a Train

This photo had our mind reeling with possibilities of awesome captions. We should give you some background info first, though. No one was hurt in this accident. In fact, no one was even in the...

Video: The History and Awesome Personal Story Behind The Meyers Manx – An American Icon

It is a little bit ironic that we’s find this killer Hot Rod Unlimited episode about the famed Meyers Manx on the day when we already ran some air cooled VW content, but it would be appropriate...

Show Gallery: The Belair Plaza Cruise – 2012 Daytona Turkey Run – Pro Street, Hot Rods, and More!

(Photos by Doug Garrison) – The huge gathering of hot rodder known as the yearly Daytona Turkey Run has its own traditions. One of those traditions is an “outlaw” car show at a...

LIVE 6PM Tonight! PowerShift With Chad And Brian: Dragstrips, Power Adders, Choppers, and More!

After last week’s technical issues during our second episode of PowerShift hear on BangShift.com, Chad and Brian will be back at it for Part Deux TONIGHT at 6pm Pacific Time. In this...

BangShift Question Of The Day: Do You Like Christmas Car Art and Cartoons?

We just ran a blog item where the Holley Gearhead News featured a cool Pro Touring Vega backed up to the speed shop and getting all loaded up with goodies by some hot rodder wearing his Santa hat. We...

Coyote Den: This Harmless Looking T-Bird Is One Of The Coolest Sleepers We Have Ever Seen

(Photos by Dave Nutting and Tube Chassis Designz) – We all love sleepers. Whether it is the idea of smashing someone with a flashy ride in the mouth (figuratively speaking) with something that...

Cool Christmas Car Art And More: Holley and Chris Froggett’s Take On Car Guy Christmas

One thing we dig about this time of year is all the funny car guy centric Christmas cartoons that you see depicting car guys decorating a starting line christmas tree rather than a regular green one,...